We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720, published by Cambridge University Press. The book’s author is Xing Hang, Assistant Professor of History at Brandeis University. Xing Hang's book looks at the … [Read more...]
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Xing Hang (Cambridge University Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of … [Read more...]
